AMPTP, WGA spinning cost of strike

December 29, 2007 The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers posted a video message indicating striking writers have now lost more than $151 million in salary and benefits, which is more than what the WGA proposed in its three-year deal to the studios. "The strike continues because the union's leaders are focused on jurisdictional issues that would expand their own power, at the expense of the new-media issues that working writers care most about," the AMPTP said. In response, the WGA West and WGA East accused the AMPTP of issuing a misleading statement and said current proposals would cause writers even more economic harm in the future than they claim this strike has caused.

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